Posted on 09/10/2004 8:14:13 PM PDT by Cableguy
This is not the first time Dan Rather has found himself in a serious dispute with a U.S. president.
There was this exchange in 1974 during the height of the Watergate scandal with then-President Richard Nixon:
Nixon: Are you running for something?
Rather: No sir, are you?
And there was this exchange with then-Vice President George Bush in 1988 over the Iran-Contra scandal.
Rather: I don't want to be argumentative, Mr. vice president.
Bush: You do, Dan.
Rather: No -- no, sir, I don't.
Bush: This is not a great night, because I want to talk about why I want to be president, why those 41 percent of the people are supporting me. And I don't think it's fair to judge my whole career by a rehash of Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?
Now, the 72-year-old CBS News anchor finds himself in yet another confrontation with a Republican president.
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I watched the program Wed. night because, being familiar with Ben Barnes, I was curious about how many lies that lying crook would tell.
Isn't it Rather who did the puff peice interview with Saddam, or am I thinking of the wrong liberal ancor?
Does Rather have more respect for Castro and Saddam then he does for Republican President's - He sure asked harder questions to our President's. Just a thought.
I saw a former CBS News exec on O'Relly tonight, whining about how the bloggers have "no checks and balances." Steve Hayes from the Weekly Standard immediately spanked him for it, but what really struck me is that we have one of the biggest news organizations on the planet using forged documents to libel a sitting President in wartime, and this guy thinks that CBS is all set on checks and balances. Heck, the bloggers have the same set of checks and balances CBS is experiencing right now: If you're a blogger and you post a hoax on your site, someone will read it and set off the Bogus alarm. Sucks to be CBS...maybe they should have thought twice about a document check by telephone.
That is most awesome .. can I send it as a link to my son?
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Personally I think Wolf Blitzer is nothing more than a Dingo.
He smells the blood of one of his own and wants to join in the feeding frenzy to tear him apart.
Thanks for the ping!
So they do eat their own?
I agree. And if the others in the paleomedia stand by, they run the very real chance of getting sucked down with CBS, marking a premature demise of the entire paleomedia complex.
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